St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-06
THE LITTLE w0MAN,s DAY.
Fashion Declares Itself in Favor of
Eemininity iM NlinimtMre.

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EemiDinity iH Miniature.
1t has at last come. The day of little
women. All the fashions tend to make
women look taller, all the pompadour styles
are being revived, and the coquettishness OF
that era adapts itself only to the small
women, says the New York Star. Beaut-
full gianteSSeS are not the vogue, and the
time of the tiny creation has come at last
OF course she triumphS-a little woman
could not resist that; of course. gawI[y,
horSy. and all other abOmnable adiectives
that can be applied to big women are in her
possession. and she delights i'll using them.
She goes in for being immensely
innocent. and would seem TO have
followed the advice given in a French
journal, of which this is only remembered:
Look confident and Indifferent: express
yourself simply. and with voice as sweet
as possible; be keenly alive to everything
that passes, yet appear absent-minded;
know as much as possible, yet please by
asking questions. Having read everything,
quote nothing: seen everything. appear ig-
norant; heard all, always express surprise;
desiring everything, ask for nothing. Be
light hearted: preserve your beauty: be indul-
gent. to attract sympathy. DOnOt force wit;
always listen attentiyely; be charitable for
your own satisfaction. See things at q
glance; judge quickly, and think more
quickly still, in order to keep a cool head"
There is an immense amount of wisdom
in all this advice. which, singular as it may
seem. appeared, | believe, in La Vie Paris
ienne. 1t takes Frenchman to think out
all these things. for just as certainly as he
appreciates beauty at its utmost value, just
as certainly is it true that he appreciates
that something more than beauty, which is
bound to retain a man once he is made con-
scious of it. Balzac says: 1.-The most cee-
brated attachments in history were all in
spired by women in whom the vulgar would
have found some defect. Cleopatra. Joanna
of Naples, Diana of Poictiers La Val
Iiere. Nine. PompadOur-in short, most OF
the women whom love has rendered
celebrated were not without imperfec-
tons and infirmities, while most
women whose beauty il described to
us as perfect have been finally I'M
happy in their loves. This apparent caprice
must have its cause. Perhaps men live by
sentiment more than by pleasure; perhaps
the charm. wholly physical. of beautiful
woman has its bounds: while the charm,
essentially moral, of a woman Of moderate
beauty is infinite"
Now this does not mean that | am crying
down beauty. IL mas no more ardent auVO-
cate than |, but Dolly, have seen beauti-
full women capture hearts they could not
hold, and women of wit seize them and
hold them forever after: While the beauti-
full woman wondered in placid way how
il all happened. The combination of beauty
and wit is one seldom met with. But when
it is it is the strongest in the world and
needs TO be feared as much as admired.
Apropos of beauty, am going to give
you the real recipe for the Virginia. milk,
which forms such a delightful bath. and
really does do the complexion great deal
of good. Mix ten drops of tincture of ben
Zoin to an ounce of rOse-water until a milky
liquid is the result. In using it in the bath
pour enough in to make the water look like
skim milk. and then you will feel all the
delights of this cosmetic, old as the pyra-
mlds themselves. and which really must
have been discovered in the Garden Of Eden
Some people say that it should remain on
the face and dry there without towel
touching it: but this is Il simple fad, because
after a bath of it one uses the towel precisely
IS one does for a less luxurious affair.